James Henry Reynolds

James Henry Reynolds (3 February 1844-4 March 1932) was a British Army Lieutenant-Colonel who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery at the 1879 Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War.

Biography
James Henry Reynolds was born in Kingstown, County Dublin, Ireland on 3 February 1844, and he joined the British Army in 1868 and became a surgeon. He was deployed to South Africa during the 1870s, serving as the medic at the Rorke's Drift outpost in Natal during the Anglo-Zulu War; on 22-23 January 1879, he distinguished himself at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, during which he and his fox terrier unwaveringly attended to the wounded even as the Zulus attacked the outpost hospital. Reynolds was awarded the Victoria Cross, and he died in London in 1932 at the age of 88.